2015 ANNUAL MEETING
Sponsors
Diamond Level Sponsorship
Aries Systems Corporation
Aries Systems transforms the way scholarly publishers bring high-value content to the world. The company’s innovative and forward-looking workflow solutions manage the complexities of modern print and electronic publishing—from submission, to editorial management and peer review, and to production tracking and publishing channel distribution. Thousands of publications and hundreds of scholarly societies partner with Aries Systems to streamline and improve the publication of their important journals, books, proposals, and conference proceedings.
As the publishing environment evolves, Aries Systems is committed to delivering solutions that help publishers and scholars enhance the discovery and dissemination of human knowledge.
Publish faster, publish smarter, with Aries Systems.
MPS Limited
MPS provides platforms and services for content development, production, and distribution. Over the 45 years of our dominant presence, we have established global partnerships with the world’s leading publishers, platforms, and digital learning companies. MPS is determined to be the global leader in integrating subject matter expertise with digital learning..
Platinum Level Sponsorship
Atypon
Atypon delivers innovative solutions that revolutionize the way publishers do business. Literatum, Atypons flagship ePublishing platform, provides all of the functionality that publishers need to compete in the digital world, including advanced search and information discovery, access control, e-commerce, marketing and business intelligence. Atypons RightSuite offers an access and e-commerce solution that enables publishers and media organizations to monetize their digital content, experiment with new business models and optimize revenue streams. Learn more at www.atypon.com.
Silverchair
At Silverchair, we collaborate with STM information creators and publishers to propel their content to greater reach, impact, and utility through integrated and personalized knowledge products and services of the future. Our unique combination of comprehensive services and natively semantic architecture enables flexible and fast product development allowing our clients to be more agile in meeting the converging education, reference, and research needs of their audiences. To learn more about how we help our clients achieve truly transformative product development, visit http://www.silverchair.com.
Travel Grant
Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a leading global rights-licensing technology organization, provides solutions that simplify compliance for content users, promotes the work of creators and supports the principles of copyright. A rights broker for the world’s most sought-after journals, books, blogs, movies and more, CCC makes it easy for businesses and academic institutions to use, share and store copyrighted material while compensating content creators for their works. With its international subsidiary, RightsDirect, CCC serves more than 35,000 customers and 12,000 publishers around the world.
Inera eXtyles
Inera develops the eXtyles and Edifix editorial and XML solutions, which allow publishers to automate the most time-consuming aspects of document editing and produce accurate XML with the click of a mouse. Publishers of scholarly journals, books, standards, and government documents rely on our tools to drive modern publishing workflows.
Kaufman Wills Fusting & Company
KWF, the largest management consultancy serving scholarly publishing, provides the knowledge and resources needed by its clients to determine and meet their strategic goals and implementation plans. Services include strategic planning, product development, RFPs, market research, global institutional sales and marketing, publishing audits, industry trends and environmental scans, and recruitment.
Scholarly iQ
Scholarly iQ provides trusted eBusiness solutions to the academic publishing market.
Whether you are a publisher, librarian, consortium member, author, reader or service provider to the academic publishing market, understanding usage of digital content will be critical for you to manage your day and your business.
Leaders in usage reporting since 2002, SiQ services integrate and deliver meaningful data accurately and on time for better business decisions.
SiQ leverages leading technologies and has a solid team of professionals in online publishing, web analytics, database integration, and web site development, providing legendary client support 24×7 with energy, enthusiasm and commitment. This combination ensures that SiQ continuously provide exemplary customer centric solutions with industry leading people, processes and technologies.
In addition, SiQ actively supports the academic publishing market as a whole through community participation including NISO’s SUSHI Developers Group and Business Information Topic Committee (www.niso.org) , the Society for Scholarly Publishing (www.sspnet.org) and COUNTER’s International Advisory Board (www.projectcounter.org).
We are dedicated to contributing to and serving the academic publishing market and communities, sharing our many years of experience with you..
Branded Items
Allen Press, Inc.
Allen Press, Inc. plays a vital role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by collaborating with publishers, societies, and associations to deliver publishing, printing, and support solutions. Headquartered in Lawrence, KS, Allen Press provides the most comprehensive offering of integrated services for scholarly journal and special-interest publication production in the industry. We offer a true integrated author-to-reader solution with the convenience of working with a single trusted partner.
Cenveo Publisher Services
Cenveo Publisher Services is the world’s largest provider of content management and production services to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishers.
Cenveo Publisher Services delivers a full-range of technology, content, and delivery solutions that escalate revenue and streamline workflows while ensuring editorial integrity. Cenveo is an industry leader in XML-early workflow solutions, copyediting, digital outputs, automated transformations, author services, print and fulfillment services, and so much more. We’ve raised the bar for production turnaround times and can become a trusted partner to your publishing organization.
Cenveo Publisher Services is the only American-owned global full-service partner that combines the technology, experience and end-to-end support of offshore teams. We understand that continuous improvement is a critical element to serve your customers and improve your bottom line.
CHORUS
CHORUS advances sustainable, cost-effective public access to articles reporting on funded research, at no extra cost to taxpayers. Built on interoperable open technology, CHORUS’ distributed-access approach works across agency policies and in concert with diverse licenses — keeping content in context and without additional burden for authors.
Editage
Editage, a brand of Cactus Communications, is a leading provider of English-language editing and publication support services to publishers, journals, and societies, globally. Editage has one of the largest teams of editors, trainers, and publication support experts in the world. Our mission is to bridge the gap between authors and peer-reviewed journals, and to accelerate the publication of high-quality research.
HighWire
Celebrating 20 years of service, HighWire Press provides technology solutions to influential publishing organizations that produce high-impact journals, books, and other scholarly materials. HighWire offers digital content development and hosting services using innovative open platform technologies, a customizable peer-review manuscript submission system, strategic consultation services, and collegial community networking opportunities. www.highwire.org
Sheridan
At Sheridan, we are working to deliver ideas today that connect publishers of journals, books, magazines, and catalogs to tomorrow. Content preparation, platform development, and content dissemination (ink on paper and online) are key Sheridan competencies. Our development of publisher-focused solutions such as workflow systems integration, process automation, eCommerce platforms, mobile product development and an array of fulfillment solutions define us as innovative partners who deliver true efficiency. Sheridan serves the global publishing community with distribute and print partnerships and alliances around the world. www.sheridan.com
Spi Global
SPi Global empowers leading scholarly and professional publishers to maximize the value of their content online and offline by infusing technology, know-how, and innovation into their businesses. SPi Global provides its clients with a competitive advantage by creating unique strategies in redefining a business model, enhancing an existing or developing a new service offering and increasing operational efficiencies by introducing a system or redefining workflows.With a complete suite of digital, publishing, journal production, content development and enrichment, and marketing services, we help companies adapt to the rapidly changing demands and needs of their own customers through our unique and innovative solutions. For over 30 years, SPi Global has been helping leading scholarly and professional publishers to increase their revenues, reduce costs, improve time-to-market, and automate operations. With over 500 clients and 9,000 content specialists, no job is too large for us.